Vasily Oshchepkov: Myths and Reality

Personalities

12 December 2017Aleksandr Solomahin

The name of Vasily Sergeyevitch Oshchepkov is known to anyone who considers himself a sambist. Nonetheless, it’s still shrouded in a cloud of various myths and fantasies. To elucidate the issue, FIAS website addressed Aleksandr Evgenyevitch Kulanov, a historian, an FSS Awards Laureate, and the author of ‘Oshchepkov’ biographical novel released this year in Russia, in the ‘Lives of Remarkable People’ series. He made a list of twelve items corresponding to the facts from Oshchepkov’s biography that get skewed in press and social networks most often. And then, of course, he clarified them.

More interesting details about the life and work of Vasily Sergeevich Oschepkov you will find in the book of A.E. Kulanov "Oschepkov" here: READ

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